Comments on: Who said mud isn’t exciting? http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/ A blog about sedimentary geology. Fri, 25 May 2012 13:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: BrianR http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/#comment-2278 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:29:17 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/#comment-2278 yeah, you can’t even see anything in thin section, so you need to do geochemistry (shudder) to learn anything

good point…right, i’m an anti-mudist, or maybe an anti-mudite (cf., anti-dentite from Seinfeld)

]]> By: Karen http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/#comment-2259 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:30:21 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/#comment-2259 I under-appreciate mudstone because not only does it make craptacular deposits, but it looks just as craptacular in thin section.

But if you’re anti-mudstone, doesn’t that make you an anti-mudist?

]]> By: Lab Lemming http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/#comment-2232 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:34:25 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/#comment-2232 Post-Archaean Average Shale.

]]> By: BrianR http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/#comment-2222 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:20:52 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/#comment-2222 Pan American Allergy Society?
http://www.paas.org/

]]> By: Lab Lemming http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/#comment-2212 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:29:35 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/17/who-said-mud-isnt-exciting/#comment-2212 Would you like to know on which of my low energy depocentres I’ve tattooed “I [heart] PAAS”?

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